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Portfolio by Federico Gerhardinger
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Federico Gerhardinger
collection, connection
> Variations of the concept of mask.
On the cover: theatre mask representing Silenus (Greece, 1st century BC); ritual ikhoko mbuya mask (DR Congo); gas-mask (France, 1917).
On the right: kawary helmet (Japan, end of 16th century AD)
Besides their specific characters, all the projects shown in this portfolio deal in different ways with the concepts of connection and collection.
In each project a connection of some kind can be found:
connections involving phisical places, abstract geometries, mathematical parameters, sensations, functions, symbols, memories, fields of knowledge. But no connection is possible without collection.
To collect means to choose and pick images, memories, tales, facts from the infinite stream of information in which we flow.
Our personal collection is a conceptual playground where we can find the old connections and try new ones, switch couples, match the opposites.
The challenges of a no-man's land.
A fluid space flows through the geometry of pillars and roads which divides the city and the countryside.
> View of the interiors
1.
CULTURAL CENTRE AND LIBRARY
city
countryside
infrastructure
> Top: cross section> Bottom: section variation
Geometry definition:
Line > Surface > Volume
Space is defined by the evolution of a starting section.
The resulting surface works as a selective membrane through which light and sound are allowed according to the functions along the building.
Another answer to the same question.
A path cutting through the same no-man's land;
stopping, lingering, winding at some focal points.
city
countryside
infrastructureinfrastructure
2.
PARK, CYCLING LANE, PUBLIC SPACES
> External view
Geometry definition:
Line <> Surface <> Volume
Space is defined by a single element, a white concrete stripe, which serves at the same time as a cycling lane, as a frame, as a whole volume.
Also in this case, a simple generative element is developed so to allow variations in light and sound inside the buildings.
> Elevations of some of the different buildings rising along the path: library and cultural centre.
A lightweight system which can be laid on the neglected green areas of a big city.
An essential grid whose development is determined by the will of the single owners of the vegetable gardens.
1. Box placing
2. Direction and extension
3. Farming
3.
URBAN FARM
> The uniform-variable system generated by a group of gardens.
The aspect of the urban farm changes according to the number and the preferences of the farmers.
Each box together with its garden acts like a word in a (con)text.
> Various configurations of the 8m3 storage box connected to each vegetable garden.
The dance:round flow, centered space.
Combination of flows:
Every temple is temenos:split, hedge, fence.What happens in and across the fence is flow.
The procession:linear flow, focused space.
4.
CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE
> External view
> The temple conceived as barrier, concretization of our attraction-for and fear-of what is beyond.
> Connection between a structural element and its archetype:
base and capital of a column in the church hall compared with the Tuscanic column as reproduced in the Encyclopédie.
The outcome of a conceptual shortcut.
Once a geometry is defined, its proportions can be applied to a small object (a paper cup) as well as to a big object (a landmark).
To the condition that a meaningful space is created: in this case, what is achieved is a tool for reading the landscape of Sardinia.
5.
LANDMARK, VIEWPOINT
> View of the whole complex.
> Geometrical affinity:
the ancient nuraghe, familiar presence in the landscape of Sardinia, and a common paper cup.
A specific Modulor :
the landmark is scaled according to the average proportions of the inhabitants of the island.
> Sardinian sheperd wearing his traditional clothes.
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> The analysis of a detail in Carlo Scarpa's Brion Cemetery:the concepts of exotic and ruin in Scarpa's architecture.
CONTACTS:
Federico Gerhardinger
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