jacopo leveratto

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The course of Architecture Representation Techniques is aimed at providing students with advanced knowledge on the complex of theories, practices and tools through which architectural design is materialized in a documentary apparatus. In particular, its main goal is to bring students to focus on the consistency between the conceptual core of the project and the techniques used to represent it, by comparing the aims of design with the meanings embedded in specific methodologies of representation. For this reason, according to a learning-by-doing model, it will develop through a design and representation exercise by which students will be able to verify the notions acquired during the course, and contemporarily to get in touch with the topics that will be developed during the following studios. The exercise will focus on the definition of an interpretative architectural atlas of Xicang Market area, within the larger Muslim District, which will be presented during the final exam through an online exhibition, and which will consist of a series of small pavilions designed by students in the attempt of interpreting the most characterizing features of the area.

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An Atlas of Signs.
Architecture Representation Techniques 2021,
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Jacopo Leveratto

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After centuries of urban polarization, today the wilderness (woods, forests, and abandoned rural areas) is advancing and expanding, both from a geographic and legal points of view. And if on the one hand it is now unthinkable, from an ecological perspective, to think the relationship with it in terms of opposition (i.e. of confinement, commercial exploitation, or simple re-urbanization), on the other hand the culture capable of relating to and expert in inhabiting it is lost and must be rebuilt. For this reason, in order to highlight the features of new and possible ways of colonizing de-anthropized areas, and lay the cultural and operational foundations for an environmentally conscious re-humanization, the studio focused on innovative modalities of inhabiting and building (in) the wilderness without domesticating it. Thus, working on the principles of an essentially counter-cultural project which, in recent years, has not represented an attempt to escape from society, but a means of reconnection with a larger dimension, in an ecosystem and community perspective with truly new features.

Living (with)in the Wild: Inhabiting without Domesticating.
Architecture of Interiors Design Studio 2020/21,
Architecture of Interiors Design Studio 2021/22,
School of Architecture Urban Planning and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.
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Jacopo Leveratto (Architecture of Interiors),
Nerantzia Tzortzi (Landscape Design).

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The course of Architecture Representation Techniques is aimed at providing students with advanced knowledge on the complex of theories, practices and tools through which architectural design is materialized in a documentary apparatus. In particular, its main goal is to bring students to focus on the consistency between the conceptual core of the project and the techniques used to represent it, by comparing the aims of design with the meanings embedded in specific methodologies of representation. In line with the main goal of the course, the redesign and representation exercise will focus on some architectural formalizations which have been used as some kinds of manifestos for specific critical theories, thus serving as bearer of explicit conceptual meanings. And in particular, it will look at real or fictional spaces that have not been designed by architects, and therefore lack any previous disciplinary interpretations. In this regard, students will then be asked to select a case study and reinterpret it through a representation and communication project, covering all the scale of design.

Conceptual Manifest(h)o(use)s.
Architectural Representation Techniques 2020/21,
Xi’an Jiaotong University.
Jacopo Leveratto (Architectural representation).

Every era has had its own iconic architectural typology. Whereas the dream commission was, in the past, the church, Modernism had the factory and the house, while in recent times the museum became the best occasions for extraordinary architectural exploits and, at the same time, public spaces acquired a new relevance, merging architectural, urban and landscape design to get better standard for social life. Today, by contrast, the most significant and the newest kind of buildings, and spaces, look entirely empty of people. Be they datacenters or natural reserves, vertical farms or sustainable infrastructures, third landscapes or biospheres, they all in fact entail a non-human protagonist, either in terms of fruition or agency. And this explains why qualitative researches, in this regard, are still partially lacking. The workshop therefore promoted researches by design aimed at investigating the architectural relevance of this topic, assuming an experimental point of view, in order to qualify the most meaningful spaces of the next future. Architectures that are not designed for humans only or that are not designed for humans at all. By studying how to mediate, by means of architecture, the coexistence among humans and other species and technologies, or how to define an architecture in which humans are not included.

Posthuman Design: Architectures of the Post-Anthropocene.
Workshop of Thesis 2020/21,
School of Architecture Urban Planning and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.
Alessandro Rocca (Architectural Design),
Jacopo Leveratto (Architecture of Interiors).

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The decay of private suburbs is a problem that neither the public institutions, which lacks of any legal instrument, nor the real estate market, which has no interest in that, can realistically face. For this reason, the studio investigated different forms of self-organization, in relation both with single residential units and urban commons, through which architecture could be upgraded from bottom up. The purpose was to imagine some mechanisms of scalability of these tools, to colonize the whole building, and create a critical mass that could expand to the block and the suburb. From this point of view, the studio inverted the traditional process of architectural design, by starting from the definition of a simple aggregation of two or three apartments and a playground, to extend to the block and the city.

Satellite of Love: From Co-Living to Urban Hacktivism.
Architecture of Interiors Design Studio 2019/20,
School of Architecture Urban Planning and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.
Jacopo Leveratto (Architecture of Interiors),
Fabrizio Leonforte (Building Physics).

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The studio elaborated projects for the transformation of the service areas along a specific part of an Italian highway. The selected sites were located in the so-called internal territories, the Appenninic Italian regions, which, because of the decline of the sylvan-agricultural activities, suffer phenomena of abandonment and depopulation. The implementation and transformation of the service areas had to be integrated into a process of redemption of those territories, as part of a larger movement that tends to implement new relations, between the metropolitan network and the countryside. The goal was to envision a development capable of mixing elements of newness, technology, connectivity, business, and elements related with the local cultures, establishing a dialogue with the small scale of the landscapes, the many villages, and towns.

Highway to Wilderness.
Final Thesis Studio 2019/20,
School of Architecture Urban Planning and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.
Alessandro Rocca (Architectural Design),
Andrea Rolando (Architectural representation),
Jacopo Leveratto (Architecture of Interiors).