Dubai pavilion in expo 2020 - Santiago Calatrava

The architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava project the Dubai pavilion in Expo 2020.

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Dubai 2020 Calatrava the hawk - INGEGNERI.INFO

Transportation hub in Prague - Zaha Hadid

Ribbons of Gold: Zaha Hadid Architects Unveils a Gleaming Transportation Hub for Prague

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Zaha Hadid transportation hub in Prague - ARCHITIZER

Salerno Maritime Terminal - Zaha Hadid

Sentinel by the Sea: Zaha Hadid Architects’ Salerno Maritime Terminal Opens in Italy

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SALERNO MARITIME TEMINAL BY ZAHA HADID - ARCHITIZER

Dior Miami Facades - BarbaritoBancel Architects

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DIOR MIAMI BY BARBARITO-BANCEL ARCHITECTS - ARCHITIZER

Crystal houses - MVRDV

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CRYSTAL HOUSES BY MVRDV - ARCHITIZER

Dynamic facades for shading in EAU

Designing Shadows: 10 Dynamic Screen Façades From the United Arab Emirates

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UAE SCREENS - ARCHITIZER

Dubai Tower - Santiago Calatrava

Santiago Calatrava’s Dubai Tower Will Surpass the Height of World's Tallest Building Burj Khalifa.

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DUBAI TOWER BY SANTIAGO CALATRAVA - ARCHITIZER

Reconstruction of a ghostly basilica - Edoardo Tresoldi

Living History: Edoardo Tresoldi Reconstructs a Ghostly Basilica Entirely From Wire Mesh.

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GHOSTLY BASILICA BY EDOARDO TRESOLDI - ARCHITIZER

Expo 2020 in Dubai - Pavilions by Foster + BIG + Grimshaw

Star triumvirate: Foster + Partners, BIG & Grimshaw reveal pavilions for Expo 2020 in Dubai.

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DUBAI PAVILIONS BY BIG FOSTER GRIMSHAW - ARCHITIZER

Fairyland Guorui Villas - UNStudio

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reSTART

reSTART

This is a project realized during the first year of master in architecture and innovation at IUAV.

The project is focused on the renovation of the entire industrial area of a little city near Venice, in order to find a new realty for this problematic place. The project consist to create a new urban front reusing existing industry and changing their functions and adding a pair of new buildings to complete the compact front. The other buildings are demolished for give back to the nature the precious area stolen by industrialization and creating a pedestrian/bicycle path that approaches the front and the fields in order to connect and valorize also the little river and the nearest natural place. In addition, the front will block the sprawl of the city preserving the typical rural landscape.

First of all I think about a new urban plan for the area; i give a special importance to the external arrangement with special flooring and with different uses of the green, dividing the fields from the front thanks to an embankment having also parking feature.

The buildings restored are thinker like new kind of work such as start-up, business center and so. The Laboratory spaces are flexible in order to satisfy the requirements of the users.

A special thanks to Elisa Tolot.

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NEW ORGANIC SCHOOL FOR NEGRAR

This project made during the master in architecture at IUAV, is located in Negrar (Italy) and it was think like an organic element in harmony with the landscape but maintaining a very modern line and material.
This project was made in collaboration with:
- Federica Giuriati
- Alessio Nadal
- Davide Saramin

The project considered the environment colors thanks to a color analysis based on the NCS color system.

URBAN PROJECT FOR MARGHERA

Urban project for Marghera (Italy) in order to resolve social problem and the environment pollution. The project consist of a "new head" with skyscraper for tourists arriving to visit Venice, and the restoration of a long strip characterized of a lot abandoned areas and industrial building that will be demolish in order to create a green band with new eco-quartier and a herbs park with many colored plants and flower. There are mechanisms for traffic calming such as woonerf, tanks for phytoremediation along the strip, and public space to favorite the social mix.

The project was made in collaboration with:

- Alice Cavaliere

- Giulio Foltran

- Federica Giuriati

- Alessio Nadal

- Davide Saramin

- Elisa Tolot

Fully transparent cells could transform every window into a solar power collector

Fully Transparent Cells Could Transform Every Window Into a Solar Power Collector

TEMPORARY IN VENICE LAGOON

Project for temporary tourist residence in the Venetian Lagoon, during 1st year of master in architecture. The residences are located in a campaign area not far from Venice and the purpose is to attract a new kind of tourism interested about the food, the nature and the culture.
The projects are made in collaboration with:
- Debora Billo
- Alessio Nadal
- Sofia Zanetti

Rendering made by Alex Cogo, forniture and post production made by Debora Billo.

LOTUS TOWER

Sketch of a trilobate tower divided in two levels, the first part dedicated to office and services, the upper one, is destinated to abitative units. Work in progress...

Dynamic facades

http://architizer.com/blog/8-impossibly-dynamic-facades-that-were-actually-built/

Impossible city

http://architizer.com/blog/artist-dreams-up-impossible-city-using-worlds-most-famous-skyscrapers/

Art Centre in Taipei by OMA is taking shape

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=720019214702419&id=148911565146523

Beauty and symmetry collide in stunning photographs of iranian mosques

http://architecturelab.net/beauty-and-symmetry-collide-in-stunning-photographs-of-iranian-mosques/

In Japan, High-Tech Mirrored Light Tunnels Turn Any Space Into a Courtyard Paradise

http://architizer.com/blog/suncentrals-solar-rays-head-for-japan/

COMPETITION FOR THE PALACE OF THE SOVIETS, PROJECT BY WALTER GROPIUS

THESIS IN DIGITAL DRAWING 

COMPETITION FOR THE PALACE OF THE SOVIETS, PROJECT BY WALTER GROPIUS: GEOMETRICAL ANALYSIS AND DIGITAL COMPOSITION

This thesis is aimed to the digital reconstruction of one of the most interesting projects, both from the design and functionality point of view, presented during the competition for the Palace of the Soviets held in Moscow between 1931 and 1934. 

The project presented by the german architect Walter Gropius, which hadn't convinced the council for the construction of the Palace, was designed to represent a building like a monument to the soviet socialistic ideals, based on a unified architectural organization, circumscribing inside to a circle the different functions of the organism; a circle which symbolize the aggregation of the popular masses. 

Within this project, Gropius proposes again his "Totaltheater" idea, or rather, a modern theater which must be a "community theater," a unity factor for the people, "an architecture of human unity," where it needs to be abolished the separation of the actors world and the world of spectator, dragging it into the scene; to make this possible he designs a system of movable stages, sets and screens, to show  images on space and not on a plane, in order to extend the scene until reaching the viewer.

It was considered interesting to give "life" to this iconic building of Gropius' rationality, as simple in form as complex as a whole, trying to respect to the maximum the original drawings.

Finally, I wanted to pay tribute to one of the founding fathers of modern architecture, rebuilding digitally, one of his most elaborate and ingenious works, perhaps not fully understood in the past due to the absolute political ideals which affected so heavily even in architectural choices of the time.

Thanks to supervisor Prof. Arch. Alberto Sdegno

Thanks to second supervisor Arch. Dmitry Smirnov

Special thanks to Harvard Art Museum for the photos of the original draws necessary to rebuild digitally the Gropius' project.

Arch. Alex Cogo

Here a virtual tour from outside to inside of the Palace (watch on youtube for better quality):