enrico sacchi portfolio
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A collection of projects after the Master at AAM Accademia di Architettura di MendrisioTRANSCRIPT
Enrico Sacchi
portfolio
Enrico Sacchi
01 August 1990 - Milan, Italy
address:
48, rue Madame
75006 Paris
France
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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
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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