Alessandro Calvi Rollino Architetto

Profile of Alessandro Calvi Rollino Architetto

Business Name

Alessandro Calvi Rollino Architetto

Location

Italy

Services

Architecture

Website

http://www.ec2.it/alessandrocalvirollino

Principal(s)

Alessandro Calvi Rollino (1971)

Philosophy

Graduated with Honor from MILAN POLYTECHNIC ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL,

Alessandro Calvi Rollino has taught at the same University as an Assistant Professor from 1997 to 2003, giving lectures on subjects related to Perception, Design, Model, Real and Virtual Space.

Research and design try to investigate the making of architectural spaces beginning from diagrams. Topological models, paper models and 3D virtual models, materialize and transform an architectural space based on functional programs, movements of people, traffic flows, topological relations and perceptual issues. The body-subject, throughout motion and perception, is the creator and modifier of a self oriented space, a kind of primary space made of points, lines, surfaces and volumes, where events through time may happen. Body and Architecture are the outmost poles of a research, investigating programs, actions, transit situations, thresholds between inside/outside, indoor/outdoor, above/below, front/rear etc.etc. and the related involvement among body, perception and environment. As a consequence, there are no restrictions about the scale of a project: objects, houses, or cities, they are all directly related to our perceiving bodies, that can be considered as the Degree Zero of Architecture.

Background

• Founded: 2007
• Offices: 1
• Design team: 2

Key projects

• "THE RAINBOW SCHOOL", Kindergarten, Prato (FI), 2008
• "THE GREEN LIBRARY", Municipal Library, Legnano (MI), 2008
• "PRIMARY SCHOOL", School Complex, Fano (PU), 2007
• "BODY, SPACE, ARCHITECTURE", Research project on the concept of Architectural Space, 2006
• "PALACOOP", Social Housing, Pantigliate (MI), 2005
• "COFFEE BAR: S=f(t)", Coffe Bar Renovation, Pantigliate (MI), 2004
• "PDACDM", Cultural Center, Bergamo, 2003
• "THE WHITE KITE", Private Courtyard Canopy, Pantigliate (MI) 2002
• "HANGING ARCHITECTURES", Urban Research Project, 2000
• "SPORTS CAROUSEL", Sport Complex, Offanengo (CR), 1999

Key publications

• MODO no. 133, Aesthetics of the City: Monza
• l'ARCA no. 144, Spazio 1999
• ONIRIDEA, Performance Spazio 1999
• "PREMIO DI ARCHITETTURA CITTA' DEI MILLE", Cultural Center, Bergamo, 2004
• d'ARCHITETTURA no. 25, Premio Arches, The White Kite, 2005
• AREA no. 95, Catalogo Premio Cappochin, The White Kite, 2007