BRANDO POSOCCO- portfolio -

PROFESSIONAL WORK:

Wangfujing residential

JNN3 cultural center

LMC9 hotel

Qilu Gate

BLDG Jian

Th e light box

PERSONAL WORK

Aluart forum competition

Locus amoenus competition

ACADEMIC WORK

Venetoland, Master thesis

Topsy-turvy, studio

WANGFUJING

Th e geographical position starts from the context of old

Beijing, introduces the current texture of quadrangles on

the west side and Hutong streets into the plot and inte-

grates together. Th en, on the east side, form a complete

façade along the main street and echo with large-scale

street space. Meanwhile, architectural height changes

with textures, reduces from eastern façade toward the

southwest, which makes for the integration between the

new building and urban environment of both sides and

increases the sunshine area. Th e building opens toward

the Forbidden City to provide nice view to the interior

space. On the concave space in the southwest of building

exist two small gardens, surrounded by the building and

getting a previous peace in the blatant city. Benefi t from

the layout of back sets, majority of apartments have out-

door patio, green yard or sunshine room and it seems to

live in the quadrangle, which can make people feel tradi-

tional life of Old Beijing by the special spatial experience.

location: Beijign / Chinayear: 2013 - 2014 status: competition 1st priceprogram: mixed use / retail - residentialphase: concept designarea: 50.000 mqposition: project managerteam: Cristiano Bianchi / Kristina drapic / Petar Smilianic / Quiang Xian / ZhangZhao

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west view

sky courtyardsconcept-function boundary

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10th fl oor plan

program axonometry

4th fl oor plan

ground fl oor

west east section

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model view

west elevation

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model bird view

7th fl oor plan

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part of east elevation

facade detail

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JNN CULTURAL CENTER

Th e Architecture is devided into three parts, grand the-

atre, library and exibition center. Th e building will set

back in the south east part of the plot to leave space for

the entrance square. In this project i was incharged to

work on the facade skin,from the development of the

design to the installation. Started diff erent part of the

facade following needs in light, turning the facade from

a decoration into an element that express diff erent qual-

ity of light and space insinde. I have been working in

parallel with the facade contractors studying the tecni-

cal aspect of the facade panels testing diff erent ways of

realizing them. A full scale mockup was designed and

built in order to experiment with diff erent approaches

in securing the complex facade panels to the structure

and glass curtain wall system. Th e secondary structure

for panelling system was a discussion of much debate,

shift ing from grid layout to material choices in order to

optimize strength, weight and tectonic connections.

Finally, aft er all the technical decision have been made, i

have been working with the lighting design consultant to

give the fi nal night outlook to the building.

location: Jinan / Chinayear: 2014 program: mixed use status: buildarea: 200.000 mqposition: Architect team: Jiang Wei, Qiang Xian

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library roof plan

library south elevation

north-south elevation

library hall

panels manifacture

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1:1 facade mock up

facade detail

construction site

day night

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triangular curtain wall joint

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LMC9

Th e project is a hotel complex located in the Makkah

City, the most important site for Islam. Th e main ele-

ments involved into the design are the direction of the

holy mosque Al Haram, magnetically orienting the

buildings, the presence of the mountain as background

of the scene, the dialogue with the scale of the urban sur-

roundings, and the city’s colour palette. Th e inspiration

for the architecture comes from the rocky conformation

of the territory, the memory of ancient towers in the de-

sert and the mirage as vision and hope. Th e volume of

the project introduces an intermediate scale between the

city and the mountain, where the functions are organ-

ized in a podium inserted into the mountain (bus ter-

minal, parking and Shopping Mall) with 9 hotel towers

on the top (hotels, apartments and services), plus the en-

trance building and the mosque. Th e central plaza is a re-

interpretation of the classic geometrical Arabic garden,

which is overlapped to a contemporary functional layer.

Th e façade perforation pattern is a reinterpretation of

the Islamic musharabieh, generated from an interaction

between a homogeneous grid of windows and a tradi-

tional decorative texture. At night a subtle and pulsating

lighting animation will appear on the central part of the

façade, hosting the prayer rooms, drawing a kind of cal-

ligraphy on the façade, like a prayer made of light.

location: Makkah/ Saudi Arabiayear: 2013 - 2014 competition 2nd priceprogram: mixed use / retail - hotel phase: concept designarea: 100.000 mqposition: architectteam: Cristiano Bianchi /Alex Ilten/ Bogdan Obradovic / Kristina Drapic / Cheng Mo

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parking fl oorplan +00

bird view

shopping mall fl oor plan +3

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lobby fl oor plan +5

west-east section

mall fl oor planrestaurant fl oor plan

lobby fl oor plantypical fl oor plan

hotel rooms typical fl oor plan

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program axonometry

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south elevation

interior room view

facade detail

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BLDG JIAN

Th e concept of Villa Jian came from the local architec-

ture word called “Jian”. In the local architecture culture,

there was one commonly used for building space base

unit that is “Jian”, one “Jian” represented a width of about

3.3 m to 3.6 m of spatial scale, this word “Jian” not only

represented a space base unit, but also strongly linked

with the local traditional form of construction. Th e cli-

ent‘s requirement was to build 11 “Jian”. Th us, there was

a given condition of designing a big house with a double-

slope roof covering 11 “jian”. Th e building consisted of

main two basic functions: offi ce space and exhibition

space, both of the functions were limited to a semi-open

private property. Th e starting point was how to combine

the semi-open exhibition space with a semi-closed offi ce

space under a single roof. Th e idea was fi nally to divide

both the exhibition and the offi ce into two parts: pub-

licexhibition and private exhibition, public offi ce and

private offi ce. Public exhibition and offi ce space were

placed in the fi rst fl oor, and the private exhibition and

private offi ce were placed in the second fl oor. Th e entire

function spaces have become ideally an X-form in sec-

tion; the center position of the X has become the hub of

linking two functions and two stories. A wide staricase

that can be used for projections, performace.

location: Yantai / Chinayear: 2012-2013status: buildprogram: offi ce- gallery spacearea: 1000 mqposition: architectteam: Zhao Chao / Li Huihui / Zhang Xinoffi ce: CU offi ce

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ground fl oor plan

fi rst fl oor plan

section C-C

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interior gallery

interior gallery

“JIAN“ , ractangular space used by chinese car-

penters as construction standard unit. By adia-

cent repetition of the unit the size of the building

were expressed.

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THE LIGHT BOX

Located in a residential area in Taichun that in the next

years will be deeply trasformed, the project should re-

lata with a temporary context, accomodating it’s future

changes. Th e actual surrounding were anyway really

chaotic in diff erent aspects, typology of buildings, colors,

materials, for this reason we kept a basic shape for this

project, elemental, a perfect cube, a mile stone in this fast

evolving environment. We focused like this to create an

introvers world, intimate world composed by showroom,

offi ces, temporary exibition space and performance.

location: Taichun / Taiwanyear: 2011 status: commissionprogram: exibition space / offi cestatus: concept designarea: 4000 mqposition: architectteam: Erik Amir,Th omas Batsheslager, Victor Quiros, Gador Luque

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PROFESSIONAL WORK

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sezione A-A

street view

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1st fl oor

4th fl oor

section B-B

2nd fl oor

5th fl oor

3rd fl oor

roof plan

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view from the park

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ALUART forum

Competition to design the exibition Th e primer focus of

our designing process was off course the quality of ex-

hibition spaces. We decided to follow the “white box”

concept to introduce sterile environment providing un-

determining background for any type of exposition. Th e

idea of our disposition layout aims towards an ambient

feeling emerging from combination of purity of exhibi-

tion spaces and urban entropy of a city street. Permanent

exhibition was positioned into the top fl oor where roof

structure creates north-oriented sky-lights.Temporary

exhibitions are divided into two alternated typologies.

Upper one is placed in the third fl oor and provides a

“white box” space lit by combination of artifi cial and nat-

ural light. Its fl oor plan has a pure rectangular shape and

inner space doesn’t introduce any invasive volumetry or

disturbing facade openings. Lower temporary exhibi-

tion is connected with an entrance lobby in the ground

fl oor. Th is connection can be kept open and so provide

spectacular space for opening ceremonies and events. In

this case the northern and southern facade of the ground

fl oor can be open and so creates a full width space fl oat-

ing from the city street into a prominent greenery of an

academic ground. East area of the second fl oor is the

building’s major architectural space attempting to quote

urbanity of surrounding exteriors. It is three fl oors high

room utilizing main staircase running vertically along

south wall and providing entrances to upper galleries and

hig exibition space at the same time.

location: Zagreb/ Croatiayear: 2014 status: competitionprogram: art school gallery status: concept designarea: 50.000 mqteam: Alessandro Colli / Tomas Kozelsky

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PERSONAL WORK

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masterplan

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north-south section

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ground fl oor

mezzanine level

1st fl oor

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spremiste

spremiste

izlazne stube

galerija

+04exibition- 2nd and 3rd fl oor

exploded axonometry

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LOCUS AMOENUS

Th e entry of the competition was about design a contem-

porary garden for the city of Vittorio Veneto, located in

the most industrialized area of Italy, an area where the

concrete of the industry already more than 20 years ago

kick out from theyir place beautiful gardens and the ag-

ricoltural landscape has been transformed into an indus-

trial one. Th e crisis has come, lots of industries moved to

eastern europe, so a lot of concrete skeleton remain on

this destroied landscape. For these competition o wrote a

nove, where i tell a story of these gardens that they were

kicked out from theyr own land, but now, are coming

back to take again what belong to them, trying like this to

give a new chance to the society witch lives in this region,

to built a new, clean, and environmental friendly system

and economy.

location: Vittorio Veneto / Italyyear: 2012status: competition 1st priceprogram: exibition / installationphase: realizedposition: project leader

PERSONAL WORK

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exploded axonometry

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VENETOLAND

For this project I decided to work on the Veneto

region,which is my region, and the place where i grew

up. Its landscape has changed so much in the last 50

years, originally a rural territory, it became the richest

part of italy thanks to industrial development, and now

that also the industrial epoc has gone, what remains of

it are diff used prefabricated buildings, empty industrial

areas, shopping malls and urban sprawl. By watching the

landscape we can understand a lot about who inhabits it,

and by observing the man we can understand the land-

scape where he lives. Starting from this assumption I can

say that the quailty of the landscape is the base of the

identity of the population and viceversa. Th is part was

fundamental, because the analysis of a social and terri-

torial situation can not be based on statistic data. Pho-

tography allowed me to speak with people, and better

understand the space where they live. Th e role of the

landscape in the management of the territory is becom-

ing everyday more a requirement. With this research i

do not intend to save Veneto, but i tried to do a project

who serve as detector of ther egion’s landscape situa-

tion, a land where social and economical practice have

changed leaving behind them strong negative elements,

but trough a conscious project also the bad peculiarity

can be turned into a resource.

location: Veneto region/ Italyyear: 2011Master Th esis in Landscape Architecture

ACADEMIC WORK

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veneto

provincia di tr eviso

italia

existing scenario

ecological system

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normal rain scenario

exceptional rain scenario

water collection system

green corridor restauration

stepping stones

landscape elements

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fi nal masterplan

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TOPSY-TURVY

Th e project realized for the ex railways deposit took form

from intrinsic features of the area.Th e main characteristic

of it is its composition, an embankment which is 4 meters

higher from the city level. Th e area is close to the Sile river

-which cuts longitudinally a big part of Veneto region- it

is powered by springs that devoid the high plain to the low

plain. Th e last fundamental element is the most common

housing typology diused in Veneto, which according the

analysis, is still the most requested; we are talking about

single or two family houses. We implemented new syner-

gies between public an private spaces by weaving these ele-

ments in the project area, ensuring the constant presence

of citizens inside the park. Th e embankment bring us to

built underground houses with small gardens.

Every citizen, would be free to plant in his garden his pre-

ferred vegetation, and it will aect the park inuencingit by

dening dierent relationships between private and public

space. Th e underground path will be exclusively for pedes-

trians, and it will be extended trough all the embankment,

shaping a uniform grid that will ll the area with dierent

functions. Also the commercial elements will be under-

ground, small shops that will allow the area to have two

dierent levels of use: physical and functional.

Th e path allows an eventual agglomeration of houses, and

shop extensions, leaving to the people wide opportunity to

modify the sistem depending on what will be the market

or the inhabitants needs.

location: Treviso / Italyyear: 2010program: retail - residentialphase: university programteam: Daniele Franzi / Maria Busolini

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ACADEMIC WORK

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conceptual view

residential patternsample plan / section

sample plan / section

sample area

entrances

private gardens

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+5.00 private roads

public functions

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plan level +0.00

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