Enrico Sacchi

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Enrico Sacchi

01 August 1990 - Milan, Italy

address:

48, rue Madame

75006 Paris

France

e-mail:

en.ma.sacchi@gmail.com

skype:

enrico.m.sacchi

telephone:

+33(0)768035335

Education

2015 Master of Science in Architecture at Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, CH

2012 Bachelor of Science in Architecture at Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, CH

2009 Diploma in humanities studies at Liceo Classico G. Berchet, Milan, Italy

2007-8 Intercultural exchange at Myers Park High School, Charlotte, NC, U.S.A.

Bachelor

2009 Atelier Riccardo Blumer and Mario Botta, Cage: boundary and connection

2010 Atelier Riccardo Blumer and Mario Botta, Sculpture and Exhibitor

2010 Atelier Marc Collomb, Housing in Milan, Italy

2011 Atelier Marc Collomb, a drummer and his house, Rome, Italy

2012 Atelier Francesco Venezia, The cave of Tiberio: an exposition space, Sperlonga, Italy

2013 Atelier Francis Kerè, Social housing in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Master

2013 Atelier Jan de Vylder, 7 houses: same program - different contexts, Belgium

2014 Atelier Aires Mateus, Living Marrakech: a library and a square, Morocco

2014 Atelier Eric Lapierre, Space of fiction: the Bible on the Via Appia, Rome, Italy

2015 Diploma Mario Botta, The new train station of Mendrisio, Switzerland

Jury: Valerio Olgiati, Aurelio Galfetti, François Charbonnet, Kersten Geers, Tom Schoper

2013-15 treasurer of OSA - Academy Student Organization

www.osa-mendrisio.ch

Curriculum Vitae

Workshops

2014 Building Reality, the construction of a research center in Burkina Faso. 6 weeks in

Gando with Francis Kerè

Relevant Work Experience

2015 collaboration with Studio Albori for Chicago Architecture Biennal

2011 9 months internship at Kuehn Malvezzi Architects, Berlin, Germany

2008 collaboration with Studio Albori for Venice Architecture Biennal

Vectorworks Autocad Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesignAdobe IllustratorMicrosoft OfficeSketchUp

LanguagesSoftwares

Italian

English

French

German

Spanish

spoken written

mother tongue

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New train station of Mendrisio, CH

Diploma Mario Botta

Every project reflects five fundamental conditions: site, size, type, function and mate-

rial. Such conditions may vary and produce a wide range of combinations. When one

of them is assigned, the others vary within a specific set of possibilities until they all

react on each other and give form to an idea.

model - 1:100 - treated MDF

Jury

Valerio Olgiati (Diploma Director) - Aurelio Galfetti - François Charbonnet - Kersten

Geers - Tom Schoper

Mendrisio is a town separated in two by the crossing of one of the

main European train axis. The main road, the station, the post office and

the bus station are now located at the south side, while the north one,

between the railways and the highway, is still industrial. The new SUPSI

building, that will bring another university in town, will rise in this second

context. The project for the new station aims to establish a relation

between the two sides. The idea is to force this punctual separation

to reconnect the town.

At a bigger scale, the traffic of the main road is split in two one-way

directions, one on each side of the railway. The public functions will be

then split on the two sides. The last step is to connect them through

a bridge and a passerelle: the first one guarantees access to the train

level while the second one is a straight connection through the railway

barrier.

aerial view - collage

Enrico Sacchi

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Enrico Sacchi

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floorplan - parking level

Enrico Sacchi

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Enrico Sacchi

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floorplan - train level

north - south sections

the trains - the square

the passerelle - the bus station

“The student demonstrated concreteness in facing the project, even if in

the first part of the semester he had some difficulties in choosing the com-

position and in turning his idea into something more urban and real. He has

been available to the various changes proposed by the professor and he

progressively improved in the evolution of the project, sometimes with de-

cisive choices that brought good results. The didactic path of the graduate

it was always correct and constructive. In the final part of the semester he

increased the technical and compositive aspect, showing a good knowledge

of the discipline in all of its aspects.”

Mario Botta

forest house - collage

Atelier Jan De Vylder

The project for a house in a forest becomes a way for sperimenting with

concrete. It’s a fortress, a retreat, of which one façade is poured in the

ground and then lifted. The element of the stair becomes the support that

holds it in place.

entrance floor - ground floor - cross section

atmospheric section

Anne Holtrop, Batara (four walls) - construction and after

like a folding chair moving around a joint

work in progress

model - 1:33 - concrete poured in earth

the void

the retreat

Marrakech’s Medina

Living Marrakech: a covered square and a library for the Medina

Atelier Aires Mateus

positive and negative - concrete and pigments

Marrakech’s Medina - 1:1000 - pigmented concrete

between the mosque and the street - sketch of the first idea

The project fills an urban void in the most central part of the Medina.

An unused plot just beside Ben Youssef mosque is open to the city traffic.

Here, rising one floor above the street level, a new library is born: a space

of knowledge and learning. Underneath it a covered square is generated:

space of trade, space of shadow, space of rest. The intellectual knowl-

edge arise from tradition and everyday life.

model - 1:200 - painted foam

the square in its context - the library

light and shadow in traditional architecture

model - 1:33 - burned concrete

Piero della Francesca, Announciation, 1470

space of fiction - anytime anywhere architecture - via Appia revisited

Atelier Eric Lapierre

Each student was challenged to reinterpret one scene of the Bible in

the scenographic context of via Appia Antica in Rome. I was assigned to

study the episode of the Announciation, the moment when Gabriel

visits Virgin Mary to inform her that she will conceive the son of God.

The most intriguing aspect of the Announciation is that the act of concep-

tion, common to all human beings and animals, is deprived by the physical,

sexual act and it’s through this absence that the episode exits normality

and reaches the myth.

The project tries to evoke the importance of this absence: a very sim-

ple house finds its place in a pasolinian roman outskirt, at the crossing

between a trainway and the old Appia road. This proximity leads to an

exception: one of the corners seems to be cut away by the trainway, and

is therefore treated differently. It is through this absence that a very simple

house exits normality.

Still from Pasolini’s Mamma Roma, 1962

ground floor

first floor

exterior view - collage

model - 1:10 - mixed technique

informal settlement and water tank

social housing in Ouagadougou

Atelier Kéré

Ouagadougou, the main center of Burkina Faso, is rapidly growing: attract-

ed by the economical possibilities that a city offers, many inhabitants move

here from the country. Anyhow, the settlements grow in areas that are

not covered by any infrastructure and informality, typical of the village

structure, clashes against the attempt of a westernized planification.

The aim of the project is to imagine a prototype of social housing in the

peripherical areas of the city, related to the habits and the needs of a dif-

ferent society. Beside the necessity of densification, different aspects had

to been considered: the use of local material and local building tecniques,

the storage of water, the relationships within the community, the impor-

tance of a small scale economy and the use of streets as public space.

Walter Mittelholzer, bird’s eye view over Ouagadougou, 1932

the street as public space

Ouaga 2000 - the dream of Burkina Faso

type module

construction layers

the street as public space

enfilade - inner courtyards

fabrics, Burkina Faso

Building reality workshop

Atelier Kéré

Experiencing a different society through the planning and construction of

a research center in Gando, Burkina Faso, home of Francis Kéré. 25

students and 1 village. Tradition. Collaboration. Community.

traditional compound

new Gando’s research center

the concrete skeleton

Venice Biennal 2008 - tamed ecomonster

with Studio Albori

The project by Aldo Rossi and Gianni Braghieri for San Cristoforo train

station in Milan was never completed: its concrete skeleton can still be

seen in the outskirts of the city.

The project imagines a new use of this existing structure: by addying

different modules the dead skeleton returns to life in the form of a new

settlement. While the ground level hosts shops and facilities, the upper

ones become a new village in the city.

the original project by Aldo Rossi and Gianni Braghieri, 1983

proposed floorplan

old and new - sections

old and new - model - 1:100 - wood and cardboard

the tamed ecomonster

Moving into a new house, how to make two rooms out of one?

A system that works only by pressure was developed - to avoid

perforations. Using mostly existing materials it was possible to

build a nest of 6 m2 where to feel comfortable.

a room with two windows

a wall

two rooms with one window

on the other hand...

Enrico Sacchi