Portfolio 2012-2019 - Weigh Station

portfolio 2012-2019

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Set design
Milan 2018

A film by Danilo Correale
Curator: Martina Angelotti
produced by CAREOF: Marta Bianchi, Lia
Manzella, Aurora Morelli
Set design and production: Alessandro
Mason, Matteo Giustozzi (GISTO)
Produced with the support of Italian
Council 2017 - (DGAAP) MiBac

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backstage,
movie production

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metal structures,
modules 02, 03

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metal structures,
modules 04, 05, 06

HU_Robot

Design
Lugano, 2018

A project by: Claudio Prati e Ariella Vidach
Coreography: Ariella Vidach
Music: Alessandro Perini
Graphic programming: Sebastiano Barbieri
Scenography: Claudio Prati
Light Design: Stefano Pirandello
Robot re-design: GISTO Alessandro Mason

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projection mapping,
robot, kinect, projector

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technical draw,
robot structure

Metallica

Research
Free University of Bolzano,
2017 - 2018

Course by: Harry Thaler, Alessandro Mason,
Francesco Galofaro

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ceramic 3D printer,
settings and test

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ceramic shapes and
mould

Player Piano

Exhibition design
Biennale Internazionale Design
Saint-Étienne 2017

Research and design: Joseph Grima, Giulia
Finazzi, Simone Niquille, Sofia Pia Belenky,
Jakob Skote, Nicci Yin (Space Caviar)
Design and production: Alessandro Mason,
Gabriele Lucchitta, Matteo Giustozzi
(GISTO); rotating lamp developed in
collaboration with Xuni Technology;
stainless steel structures realized in
collaboration with The Room Produzioni.
Acoustic landscape: Charli Tapp
Exhibition: 10° Biennale Internazionale
Design Saint-Étienne (9 March - 9 April
2017)

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exhibition structure,
stainless steel ring

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rotating lamp,
stainless steel ring

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oculus rift with
virtual reality

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technical draw,
axonometric view

Fablab Cfv

Design
Castelfranco Veneto,
2015

Project and production: Alessandro Mason,
Alessandro Guagno, Matteo Giustozzi, Alice
Cazzolato (GISTO), Gloria Spagnolo, Mirco
Piccin (Fablab CfV)
With the help of: Angelo Pozzobon / Andrea
Vial, Antonio Foscarini, Alessandro Bonetto,
Federica Mantovani, Silvio Rossetto, Tiziano
Maffione (crew FabLab CfV), MTMA architetti.

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recycled material from
old machine components

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flyover infrastructure

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flyover infrastructure

Uncharted

Exhibition design
Oslo Architecture Triennale
2016

Research and design: Marco Ferrari, Elisa
Pasqual, Pietro Leoni, Alessandro Busi,
Francesca Lucchitta, Giovanni Pignoni,
Mariasilvia Poltronieri (Folder)
Exhibition design and production:
Alessandro Mason (GISTO)
Exhibition: After Belonging, On Residence.
Oslo Architecture Triennale (8 September -
27 November 2016)

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exhibition design,
metal table

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exhibition design,
metal structures

Italian Limes

Exhibition design
Similaun, 2014-ongoing

Project: Folder (Marco Ferrari, Elisa Pasqual,
Alessandro Busi, Aaron Gillett), Pietro Leoni
(interaction design and engineering), Delfino
Sisto Legnani (photo), Angelo Semeraro
(interaction design), Alessandro Mason
(design and manufacturing), Livia Shamir
(general coordination).
Scientific Coordination: Prof. Aldino
Bondesan (Comitato Glaciologico Italiano,
Università Padova), Prof. Valter Maggi
(Comitato Glaciologico Italiano, Università
Milano Bicocca).
Exhibitions: Italian Limes is part of Reset
Modernity!by Bruno Latour at ZKM, Karlsruhe
(April 2016) South Tyrol Museum of
Archaeology (June 2015). 14th International
Architecture Exhibition, Biennale di Venezia
(November 2014)

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exhibition design,
detail

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sensor detail

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sensor

Broel School Demolition

Workshop
Kortrjik, 2014

Project: Space Caviar (organization: Martina
Muzzi)
In collaboration with: Folder, GISTO and
Pietro Leoni
Photos: Delfino Sisto Legnani / Raphael
Coutin
Exhibition: Biennale Interieur 2014, Kortrjik
Belgium

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metal stair,
design and production

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metal stair,
design and production

GISTO is a studio/workshop based between        Alessandro Mason is an architect, designer
Milano and Treviso (Italy), operating at the    and maker. He received his master’s degree
intersection of architecture, design and        in Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano
craftsmanship. We develop projects from         in 2010 and shortly afterwards he founded
conception to production, working partially     GISTO. He is currently a professor for
or entirely in all phases. Since 2010, we       Production Technologies and Systems at
participate to a series of research projects    the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free
with the support of important institutions      University of Bolzano.
such as: Salt Istanbul, Biennale di
Architettura di Venezia, Triennale di Milano,   Matteo Giustozzi is a designer and maker.
ZKM Karlsruhe, Fondazione Benetton, Oslo        He graduated at the Politecnico di Milano
Architecture Triennale, Biennale                with a master’s degree in Industrial Design.
Internationale Design Saint-Étienne and         His strong interest in materials and
BIO - Biennal of Design Ljubljana.              handicraft led him to found LABORATORIO
                                                TAC together with Andrea Capriotti.
studio
GISTO c/o Careof                                Alice Cazzolato is a psychologist, she
Fabbrica del Vapore                             graduated in Neuroscience and
via Procaccini, 4                               Neuropsychological Rehabilitation at the
20154 Milano (MI)                               University of Padova, expert and passionate
Italy                                           of Cognitive Science, Neuroscience and
                                                Neuropsychology. In GISTO she deals with
www.gisto.net                                   administration, accounting, management.