Massimo Rota Email & Phone Number

Bergamo, Italia

Activities:• AEC (Architecture Engineering Construction)

Bergamo, Italia

Activities:• Architectural design;• Structural design;• Structural reinforcement design;• Urbanistic design;• Intern design;• 3D modeling (Rhinoceros 3D)

Bergamo, Italia

Activities:• Structural design support;

Politecnico Di Milano

This research analyzes the design, production and performance aspects of carbon fiber formwork for the casting of reinforced concrete columns, which, once placed on site and filled with concrete, remain in operation by geometrically modeling the element and creating a wheeling that enhances its carrying capacity.The idea of creating carbon fiber formworks arises from the desire to exploit the potential of this material in the building industry, but not simply from a performance point of view, but also combining aesthetic expressiveness, thus creating a sort of element that encapsulates both the rationality of engineering and the expressiveness of architecture.The fundamental aspect of the whole process is the integration with digital manufacturing methods. Digital manufacturing is the process through which is possible to create solid and three-dimensional objects starting from digital designs obtained with algorithmic design, thus obtaining an infinite number of unique pieces but without price increases.In this case, digital manufacturing becomes a digital robotic manufacture because the designed 3D object is obtained through the robot cutting of polystyrene with hot wire.The manufacturing technique is the filament winding, where the polystyrene form obtained from the cut is wrapped in fiber ribbon and subsequently cured to obtain the solid carbon geometry. At the end of the process, the polystyrene is dissolved with the solvent to obtain the final carbon part.This production method can give geometries not obtainable in any other way.The research has followed all phases of the project: from the study of materials, to the design of the elements, to the production method, to the experimental tests, and finally the comparison with the current legislation.

Bergamo, Italia

Internship and collaboration part-time during university career

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Construction Engineering - Ingegneria Dei Sistemi Edilizi, 105/110

Activities and Societies: Thesis title: "BLACK FORMWORKS: digital robotic fabrication of carbon fiber formwork for the casting.

European Mobility Program (Erasmus), Civil Engineering - Architecture

Activities and Societies: Study-abroad exchange programDescription of curriculum: - Fracture mechanism and fatigue; - Building.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Beng, Building Engineering, 99/110

Activities and Societies: Thesis title: "THE PHOTOGRAMMETRIC SURVEY: Theorical principles and survey of Cusagos's Castle"​ Supervisor.