MRdM

Marco Ripa di MeanaSalvador, Brazil, 24/12/1987

@ marcaoripa@hotmail.it

+49-15739783876+39-3339521926

Sonnenallee 32, 12047 Berlin

Brazilian Italian

Education

20132006

Degree in Architecture - Politecnico di Milano - 104/110Secondary School Diploma in Classics - Liceo Classico “Melchiorre Gioia”- 73/100

Experiences abroad

2014 2013 2013

2010

2009

Internship in the architecture office Heim&Balp Architekten in Berlin, Germany Internship in the architecture office Joao Conrado Arquitetura in Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil Thesis research for the master degree and internship in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThesis research for the bachelor degree in Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, and Salvador, Bahia, BrazilErasmus Program at Universidad del Pais Vasco in Donostia/San Sebastiàn, Basque Country, Spain

Working Experiences

2014 20142013 201320122009

Heim&Balp Architekten, Berlin, Germany - 5 months collaborationCS Studio, Milano, Lombardia, Milano - 2 months collaboration Joao Conrado Arquitetura, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil- 2 months internshipNAPP, 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

Computer Graphics Skills

CADAdobe

Others

Vectorworks, Autodesk’s Autocad, Autodesk Revit, RhinocerosPhotoshop - Indesign - IllustratorWord - Exel - Power Point - PublisherGoogle Sketchup

Languages

ItalianPortugueseSpanishEnglishGerman

Mother tongueMother tongueVery good Good Basic

Alpeggio

IncrEmental Favela

AurOra

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Bocconi University

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DIputaciò

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Alpeggio

February 2012 - July 2012Tutor: Gianni ScudoLocation: Canzo, Lombardia, Italia

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), de-stroying the local culture and the mountain ecosystem. The goal of the proposal is to remove the new plants and recreate a new economy of the mountains by old culture and new ways of tour-ism in a sustainable manner. The project claim to be economically and energetically sustainable and wants to be as much as possible in-dipendent, reusing 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 ani-mals 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 buildings was tought to create a producing courtyard and a tourist sys-tem, separating the two different functions in two different spaces. The courtyard is organized as a food chain, from the hay to the cheese,to facilitate the production. All of the buildings were though studing the inclination of the soil, creat-ing volumes that involve few escavation and thinking interior spaces that could profit as much as possible the solar light.

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Foto 4 Masterplan and East Façade

The Hotel

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 skylight to illuminate them.

First floor Plan

Model exploded

Photo of the model

Four beds room

Hall

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Double room

Double room

Double room

Double room

First floor Plan

All the buildings are designed with “ballon frame” tecnology using the wood obtained from the deforastation. The façade cladding in made of fiber cement produced on-site with straw and concrete.

SouthEastern Elevation

SouthWestern Elevation

The Stable and the cheese diary

Concept Morning

Plan and food chaim Photo of the model

The stable is divided in five differ-ents parts, the first one for staw, the second one for goats, than the one for cows and the last two for milk-ing. The upper part is the cheese diary. The building respect the food chaim.

Barn

Goats stable

Cows stable Milking localCheese diary

Afternoon Evening

Exploded model

Northern Elevation

Eastern Elevation

Southern Elevation

Section A-A’

Section A-A’

Outside view

Photo of the model

Photo of the model

Incremental Favela

October 2012 - October 2013Tutor: Gianni Scudo, Roberto SpagnoloLocation: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The project plans to develop a marginalized part of Rio de Janeiro. The requalification of the favela Chacrinha do Mato Alto starts from the need to include this part of town inside the urban, economic and social fabric of Rio de Janeiro not intervening only on the existent reality but inserting 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, becoming 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 requalification of the rest of the informal comunity by the inhabitants.The favela, like each urban reality, is subject of growth and mutation dy-namics always active but, unlike the formal cotext, moves and chang-es indipendently with time and matter dictated by the quantity and the quality of each individual family and not of the entire comunity; needs vary from the economic ones to the familiar ones, generating growth mechanism of the built through or the occupation of the few remain-ing free soils or by constructing “puxadinhos”, little extensions of their home. Unfortunately the uncontrolled and spontaneous growth of built put at risk the soil and the construction 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 dynamics proposing the insertion of architecture-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.

Phase 1: Demolitions

Phase 2: Individuation of the voids

Phase 3: Regularization of the voids

Phase 4: New public spaces

Phase 5: Public green

Phase 6: New connec-tions and new centralities

Phase 7: Urbanizaçao

Phase 8: Incremental growth

Masterplan

Axonometry

Axonometry of the library Axonometry of the central square

Longitudinal section of the stairs

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 better 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 com-merce functions: a market and a library.

Exploded module

The Module

The growth possibility is obtained a modu-lar 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.

Phases of assembly

Detail polycarbonate wall Detail polycarbonate window

Brise Soleil coverage

The Market

“There are three tools to promote the interac-tion of the two realities: working, culture and diversion spaces.” (Jorge Mario Jauregui). Market allow an easier comunication be-tween formal and informal inhabitants under a big coverage that protect the underlying build-ings. Each modulo of the market can extend its volume in another module.

Trasversal Section

Southern Elevation

Trasversal Section

Eastern Elevation

Trasversal Section

The Library

Concept

The big volume is composed of several little volumes, each with its func-tion, giving the possibility, on the coverage of each one, of free activi-ties, like the inhabitants of favela do on the coverage of their houses. But also could become new close spaces, extending the inside useful spaces.

Perspective section

Longitudinal Section

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 comunity needs and not only the single inhabitant ones. To all of the buildings interted 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.

Hotel in Carrer de la Diputaciò

May 2014 - October 2014HeimBalp ArchitektenLocation: Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

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 narrow 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 something in between the residential building and hotel. The Diputaciò Hotel shows a contemporary 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 bathroom and kitchen in a single element that characterize the internal space and big common spaces on the groundfloor, 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.

Detail of the façade

Street Façade Section

Section

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Residential buildings in Carrer de Aurora

May 2014 - October 2014HeimBalp ArchitektenLocation: Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

The Aurora residential builings are a new intervention in the “Raval” dis-trict, 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 morphol-ogy, the architectonic typology and the materials, colours and social situa-tion of the ancient city center of Barcelona. It was though for host 32 new small residential units shared in two different buildings, one on the Carrer de l’Aurora, the other behind, in the couryard. In all the units we planned a little system that reduce bathroom and kitchen in a single element that characterize the internal space.The two buildings are connected by an external balcony that respect the architectural resi-dential typology of this area of Europe.The whole system was planned thinking not only in the private life of each tenant, but trying to create an integrated public life of the building, hosting, on the ground and on the roof floor, public spaces for cohabitation of all the people that will live there.

Ground Floor Plan

Common space

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Bocconi University Campus

February 2011 - July 2011Tutor: Pierfranco GallianiLocation: Milano, Lombardia, Italia

The Bocconi University project was plan studing the surrounding con-text in all of its characteristics: matrices, vehicular paths, pedestrian paths, public trasports, parks, view and connections. The project hosts a student center, a student dormitory, a sport center, new classrooms and a library. All of the project was thought to value the fruition of pub-lic open spaces, organizing the buildings on two different axes that facilitate the connection between the university and the public trasport stops and betwenn the two green areas close to Bocconi University. On the center of the project was put the library, essencial element for the organization of the rest of the plan. Arround the library rotate the others buildings and public spaces. Being in a fundamental position, the library was designed to be a heavy and compact volume, a monolith, from out-side but dynamic and light inside it. All the volume is covered by a stone material, arranged according to order of the interior spaces, and big silk-screened glass walls to not compromise the bibliographic material and the study of the people. Arround a big and illuminated space are organised all of the continous interior space.

Concept

Ground floor PlanConcept

Ground floor Plan

Section D-D’ Section E-E’

Eastern Elevation

Western Elevation

Northern Elevation

Southern Elevation

Urban Section

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3d view

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3d View

3d View

Urban Section

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