Marco Ripa di Meanaof a green patio. The building has acompact volumetry with a rectangularfootprint and a height of 5 floors. Themain façade is characterized by a steelstructure with a double skin systemthat allows natural ventilation anddaylighting. The internal organizationis based on a central patio that bringslight and ventilation to the flats. Theflats are designed as compact studioswith all the facilities and a balcony.The building wants to be a new resi-dential typology in between the hoteland the flat, with all the comfort of ahotel but with the flexibility of a flat.Project: Heim Balp Archite
Similar to Marco Ripa di Meanaof a green patio. The building has acompact volumetry with a rectangularfootprint and a height of 5 floors. Themain façade is characterized by a steelstructure with a double skin systemthat allows natural ventilation anddaylighting. The internal organizationis based on a central patio that bringslight and ventilation to the flats. Theflats are designed as compact studioswith all the facilities and a balcony.The building wants to be a new resi-dential typology in between the hoteland the flat, with all the comfort of ahotel but with the flexibility of a flat.Project: Heim Balp Archite
Self Sufficient Building | Social Innovation Incubator Aldo Sollazzo
Similar to Marco Ripa di Meanaof a green patio. The building has acompact volumetry with a rectangularfootprint and a height of 5 floors. Themain façade is characterized by a steelstructure with a double skin systemthat allows natural ventilation anddaylighting. The internal organizationis based on a central patio that bringslight and ventilation to the flats. Theflats are designed as compact studioswith all the facilities and a balcony.The building wants to be a new resi-dential typology in between the hoteland the flat, with all the comfort of ahotel but with the flexibility of a flat.Project: Heim Balp Archite (20)
Self Sufficient Building | Social Innovation Incubator
Marco Ripa di Meanaof a green patio. The building has acompact volumetry with a rectangularfootprint and a height of 5 floors. Themain façade is characterized by a steelstructure with a double skin systemthat allows natural ventilation anddaylighting. The internal organizationis based on a central patio that bringslight and ventilation to the flats. Theflats are designed as compact studioswith all the facilities and a balcony.The building wants to be a new resi-dential typology in between the hoteland the flat, with all the comfort of ahotel but with the flexibility of a flat.Project: Heim Balp Archite
2. Marco Ripa di Meana
Salvador, Brazil, 24/12/1987
e-mail: marcaoripa@hotmail.it
mobile phone: de +49-157-39783876 , it +39-3339521926
adress: Boxhagener Straße 33, 10245, Berlin
nationality: Italian, Brazilian
6. Education
2013
2006
Master’ degree in Architecture - Politecnico di Milano
- 104/110
Secondary School Diploma in Classics - Liceo Clas-
sico “Melchiorre Gioia”- 73/100
Working Experiences
2014
2014
2013
2013
2012
2009
Heim&Balp Architekten, Berlin, Germany - 5 months
collaboration
CS Studio, Milano, Lombardia, Milano - 2 months
collaboration
Joao Conrado Arquitetura, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo,
Brazil- 2 months internship
NAPP, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 3
months internship
5+1 AA, Genova, Liguria, Italia - 2 months internship
IJL Arquitectura, San Sebastian, Basque Country,
Spain, 2 months internship
Languages
Italian
Portuguese
Spanish
English
German
Mother tongue
Mother tongue
Very good
Good
Basic (following an intensive course)
Curriculum Vitae
7. Experiences abroad
2014
2013
2013
2010
2009
Internship in the architecture office Heim&Balp Ar-
chitekten in Berlin, Germany
Internship in the architecture office Joao Conrado
Arquitetura in Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Thesis research for the master degree and intern-
ship in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Thesis research for the bachelor degree in Sao
Paulo, Sao Paulo, and Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Erasmus Program at Universidad del Pais Vasco in
Donostia/San Sebastiàn, Basque Country, Spain
Computer Graphics Skills
CAD
Adobe
Office
Others
Vectorworks, Autodesk’s Autocad, Autodesk Revit,
Rhinoceros
Photoshop - Indesign - Illustrator
Word - Exel - Power Point - Publisher
Google Sketchup
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Masterplan and
Southern Elevation
The project is located at 1100 m above
sea level, on the italian Pre-Alpes, in
an area always occupied by pastures.
Recently this part of the territory has
been subject to reforestation with non-
native plants (abete rosso), destroy-
ing the local culture and the mountain
ecosystem.
The goal of the proposal is to remove
the new plants and recreate a new
economy system of the mountains by
old culture and new ways of tourism
in a sustainable manner. The project
claim to be economically and ener-
getically sustainable and wants to be
as much as possible indipendent, re-
using the material obtained from the
deforestation to build a new active rural
reality that can survive producing food
“in loco” through vegetable gardens,
fruit trees and a cheese diary, raising
animals in a new stable and having
an hotel and a restaurant for tourists.
The project has to deal with the stone
ruins of the ancient farm creating a
strong contrast with the new wooden
buildings. The arrangement of the
buildingswastoughttocreateaproduc-
ing courtyard and a tourist system, sepa-
rating the two different functions in two
different spaces. The courtyard is or-
ganized as a food chain, from the hay to
the cheese,to facilitate the production.
All of the buildings were though stud-
ing the inclination of the soil, creating
volumes that involve few escavation
and thinking interior spaces that could
profit as much as possible the solar
light.
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Four beds
room
Hall
WCWC
WC
All the buildings are designed
with “ballon frame” tecnology us-
ing the wood obtained from the de-
forastation. The façade cladding
in made of fiber cement produced
on-site with straw and concrete.
The rooms are exposed on South-
Southeast direction to profit the solar
light, leaving distribution spaces in the
colder façades and the service spaces
in the middle of the building with sky-
light to illuminate them.
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The stable is divided in five differents
parts, the first one for staw, the second
one for goats, than the one for cows
and the last two for milking. The upper
part is the cheese diary. The building
respect the food chaim.
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The project plans to develop a mar-
ginalized part of Rio de Janeiro. The
requalification of the favela Chacrin-
ha do Mato Alto starts from the need
to include this part of town inside
the urban, economic and social sys-
tem of Rio de Janeiro not intervening
only on the existent reality but insert-
ing a new architecture identity wich,
adapting on the informal framework,
could transform the “favela” from a
marginalized area to an integrated
and integrant part of town, becom-
ing part of it and taking project ideas.
The strategy used at the macroscale
plans the creation of an axis lift that,
crossing the existent paths, could
starts a linear requalification along it,
generating new urban realities, new
public spaces and new services. The
project intend give an initial input,
redeveloping on the favela’s central
zone, then generate an autonomous re-
qualification of the rest of the informal
comunity by the inhabitants.
Unfortunately the uncontrolled and
spontaneous growth of the builings
put at risk the soil and the construc-
tion solidity, as well the healthiness of
the houses due to excessive density of
buildings. This mechanism influenced
and generated the “Incremental favela”
project, solutions that draws ideas
from the single house growing dynam-
ics proposing the insertion of archi-
tecture-skeletons inside the favela,
structures conceived to satisfy current
needs of the inhabitants and to support
the future enlargement of the interior
spaces inside the structures.
Masterplan
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Concept
Demolitions
New empty spaces
The grid
Public and green spaces
The overlap
The axis and the paths
The new buildings
Incremental growth
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Axonometry of the market
The central axis is a sliding stairs that
allow to climb the favela and facilitate
the connection between the formal and
the informal reality and support a bet-
ter integration. The stairs become also
a new tool for gerating public spaces,
new path and new public buildings. At
the beginning and at the and of the
stairs two important architecture will
host public and commerce functions: a
market and a library.
Ax
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The growth possibility is ob-
tained thanks to a modular unite
that can be easily assembled and
disassembled by the inhabitants.
The module is thought to be flexible
thanks to its technology composed by
polycarbonate panels.
Structure
Secondary structure
Polycarbonate structure
Polycarbonate wall
Frames
Ceiling
Legend
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“There are three tools to promote the
interaction of the two realities: work-
ing, culture and diversion spaces.”
(Jorge Mario Jauregui). Market allow
an easier comunication between for-
mal and informal inhabitants under a
big coverage that protect the underly-
ing buildings. Each modulo of the mar-
ket can extend its volume in another
module.
The Market
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Eastern Elevation
Transversal Section
The big volume is composed of several
little volumes, each with its function,
giving the possibility, on the coverage
of each one, of free activities, like the
inhabitants of favela do on the cover-
age of their houses. But also could be-
come new close spaces, extending the
inside useful spaces.
Unlike the favela, this project plans
adjust this praxis, typical of residential
realities, not only in private situations
(like housing and economic ones) but
also in public buindings allowing them
to increase according to the whole co-
munity needs and not only the single
inhabitant ones. To all of the build-
ings inserted in Chacrinha was given
the possibility to increase their volume
of 30% of the total inside the structure.
In this way is possible satisfy now the
current needs of the single family and
the comunity ones in the future.
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May 2014- October 2014
Heim Balp Architekten
Location: Barcelona,
Catalunya, Spain
Typology: Work
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The Diputaciò hotel builing is a new
intervention in the “Eixample” district,
located in the city center of Barcelona.
This new building is planned in a nar-
row lot in front of the historical “Plaza
de Toros” of Barcelona, to host 25 new
little flats for temporary tenant. The
idea of this building is to create some-
thing in between the residential build-
ing and hotel.
The Diputaciò Hotel shows a contem-
porary face with its steel façade but is
connected directely to the context by
the use of mediterranean colours and
internal materials and the insertion of
the internal patio that illuminate the
landings and divide the building two
sections in the residential sector and
unify the commons areas in a big, open
and light space.
Being something that is an Hotel
but not completely, the building was
planned to have little residential units,
with a small system that reduce bath-
room and kitchen in a single element
that characterize the internal space,
and big common spaces on the ground-
floor, the mezanine and on the roof
floor for cohabitation of all the people
that will live there. All the common
spaces were thought with the idea of
having a single space but divided in
smaller surfaces on different heights
to create different contexts.
Façade 3d view
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de la Diputaciò
May 2014- October 2014
Heim Balp Architekten
Location: Barcelona,
Catalunya, Spain
Typology: Work
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Ground Floor Plan
Common
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The Aurora residential builings are a
new intervention in the “Raval” district,
located in the city center of Barcelona.
The new system wants to enter in the
old context with a new language but
considering the urban morphology, the
architectonic typology and the materi-
als, colours and social situation of the
ancient city center of Barcelona.
It was though for host 32 new small
residential units shared in two differ-
ent buildings, one on the Carrer de
l’Aurora, the other behind, in the cour-
yard. In all the units we planned a lit-
tle system that reduce bathroom and
kitchen in a single element that char-
acterize the internal space.The two
buildings are connected by an external
balcony that respect the architectural
residential typology of this area of Eu-
rope.
The whole system was planned think-
ing not only in the private life of each
tenant, but trying to create an integrat-
ed public life of the building, hosting, on
the ground and on the roof floor, public
spaces for cohabitation of all the peo-
ple that will live there.
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Courtyard 3d view
Façade 3d view
